A move turned disasterous for a favorite recipe of Bridget Fletcher, and she turned to us for help.

She says, “For 10 years, I managed to hold on to a torn piece of newspaper that had one of my family's favorite desserts, Grasshopper Squares. But after our last move, I can't find it.

“I hope it wasn't something that one of the movers thought was a useless scrap of newspaper, but it has never shown up and I've been unpacked for months now.

“The recipe was from the Pampered Chef housewares company.

“It tastes like the famous Grasshopper cocktail, but it's a freezer dessert. I've made it at least twice a year since I got the recipe, but I can't remember all the details, except you use vanilla ice cream, chocolate mint cookies and peppermint flavoring.

“Thank you.”

Fletcher's inclusion of the words Pampered Chef made this recipe easy to find.

We originally ran it in April 2001 as part of an interview with Julie Christopher, daughter of Pampered Chef founder Doris Christopher.

Julie shared several recipes on her visit to San Antonio, including the one Fletcher wanted, Frozen Grasshopper Squares. In the same interview, Julie shared details of a few of Pampered Chef's less successful products — interesting because most of the company's products are hits.

This is from my 2001 article: “Of course, not every product Christopher came up with has been a hit. For starters, there were the onion goggles, which looked like lab glasses and theoretically kept you from crying when you cut an onion.

“‘That was very short-lived,'” Julie says.

“A pig wand — basically a calico-covered stuffed pig that ‘took away all the calories' from a dish — wasn't one of the company's better ideas either,” Julie admits.

“It joined also-rans such as a needlepoint dishwasher sign that read ‘clean' on one side and ‘dirty' on the other (made by a friend who quickly found she couldn't keep up with the demand), novelty shaped ice cube trays, kitchen witches, butter molds, Cook's Shots (flavor infusers that ‘looked like hypodermic needles'), and vacuum cleaner scents that you sprinkled on carpeting, then vacuumed up.”

Recipe Find appears Sundays in Taste. If you are looking for a lost recipe or have a favorite recipe to share, let us hear from you. Email kharam@express-

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